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From: andrew@postmod.UUCP (Andrew J Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: short overflow in Dnews and Arn
Message-ID: <1865fdc0.ARN06dd@postmod.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 90 21:48:00 GMT
References: <901220.223410.CST.C506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu>
Reply-To: andrew@postmod.UUCP
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Organization: fredd's Famous Computers
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In article <901220.223410.CST.C506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu>, Eric Edwards writes:

-> I have discovered, with a certain amount of dispointment, that Dnews and
-> Arn use 16 bit signed integers to store the message number.  Why is this a
-> problem?  Well, I copy my news articles straight from a unix machine without
-> renumbering and sometime durring my 3 week hiatus from news reading
-> comp.sys.amiga past the magic 32767 point and kept going.  Arn and Dnews
-> complain bitterly about negative message numbers.


well, the latest version of arn, .67e, fixes this bug, among a few others.



	andrew

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